64 Quotes by T.E. Lawrence

I haven’t got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.

A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.

The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.

Off the white town hung between the blazing sky and its reflection in the mirage that swept and rolled over the wide lagoon, then the heat of Arabia came to like a drawn sword and smote us speechless.

My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

Since the adventure some of those who worked with me have buried themselves in the shallow grave of public duty.

The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.